4 Quotes by Eley Williams

All words are made up," I said."That is true," David Swansby replied, "and also not a useful contribution.

Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature.

There are certain words that have such a pleasing consistency, texture, taste, colour, odour, network, milieu, stance, poise, arch, crane, comfort, peak, trough; limpid, tepid, torpid, torqued, liquid, lacquered, honeyed, latched, thatched, throstle-sunged, spangled words. The normal pH of these words is between 3.8 and 4.5, so there is some bite to them.

Onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia for mashing your hands unthinkingly but hopefully onto a keyboard.